Best Engineering Schools
Ranked in 2017 | Best Engineering Schools Rankings Methodology
Before you can make your mark as an engineer, you need to find the graduate school that can best help you build your skills. With the U.S. News rankings of the top engineering schools, narrow your search by location, tuition, school size and test scores.
Save | Rank | School name | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment | Average GRE quantitative score (master's and Ph.D. students) (new test) | Engineering school research expenditures (2016 fiscal year) | Overall acceptance rate |
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#1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | $48,140 per year (full-time) | 3,124 | 166 | $448,324,000 | 13.4% | |
#2 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | $50,424 per year (full-time) | 3,675 | 167 | $201,159,834 | 15.4% | |
#3 | University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,076 | 165 | $208,862,000 | 17% | |
#4 | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | $45,846 per year (full-time) | 543 | 169 | $105,985,025 | 9.1% | |
#5Tie | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA | $43,000 per year (full-time) | 3,737 | 166 | $195,765,115 | 19.7% | |
#5Tie | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | $24,444 per year (in-state, full-time); $45,974 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,570 | 166 | $295,646,000 | 26.6% | |
#7 | Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA | $13,452 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,872 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 8,850 | 164 | $223,060,000 | 32.7% | |
#8 | Purdue University—West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN | $10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,744 | 164 | $259,111,348 | 30.6% | |
#9Tie | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL | $17,834 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,628 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,806 | 166 | $227,584,892 | 30.2% | |
#9Tie | University of Texas—Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX | $9,850 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,030 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,362 | 165 | $204,333,510 | 16.1% | |
#11Tie | Texas A&M University—College Station College Station, TX | $258 per credit (in-state, full-time); $681 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,469 | 164 | $282,798,000 | 22.6% | |
#11Tie | University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA | $29,520 per year (full-time) | 5,497 | 166 | $192,117,384 | 20.1% | |
#13Tie | Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY | $44,592 per year (full-time) | 3,350 | 167 | $146,963,000 | 23.7% | |
#13Tie | Cornell University Ithaca, NY | $29,500 per year (full-time) | 2,069 | 165 | $118,254,750 | 26.8% | |
#13Tie | University of California—San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,635 | 166 | $168,012,410 | 26.2% | |
#16 | University of California—Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA | $12,684 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,786 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,187 | 166 | $96,988,104 | 26.5% | |
#17 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ | $45,320 per year (full-time) | 615 | 167 | $62,990,633 | 13.3% | |
#18 | University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI | $11,942 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,269 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,821 | 164 | $141,939,724 | 20.1% | |
#19Tie | Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD | $50,410 per year (full-time) | 3,692 | 166 | $121,140,156 | 35.3% | |
#19Tie | Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL | $50,424 per year (full-time) | 2,088 | 166 | $114,089,862 | 23.3% | |
#19Tie | University of California—Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA | $12,294 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,396 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 721 | 165 | $106,551,188 | 14.3% | |
#19Tie | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | $32,286 per year (full-time) | 1,674 | 165 | $103,539,325 | 23.4% | |
#23 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA | $43,296 per year (full-time) | 478 | 166 | $50,054,491 | 11.2% | |
#24 | University of Maryland—College Park (Clark) College Park, MD | $13,020 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,080 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,371 | 164 | $161,868,022 | 33.8% | |
#25Tie | North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC | $8,088 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,610 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,303 | 164 | $188,960,115 | 15.2% |
#25Tie | University of Washington Seattle, WA | $16,917 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,153 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,416 | 163 | $151,225,559 | 28% | |
#27Tie | University of Minnesota—Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN | $16,240 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,120 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,923 | 164 | $122,194,826 | 30.3% | |
#27Tie | Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA | $14,532 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,644 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,338 | 162 | $128,303,167 | 19.3% | |
#29Tie | Duke University (Pratt) Durham, NC | $52,925 per year (full-time) | 1,093 | 164 | $97,205,000 | 27% | |
#29Tie | Rice University (Brown) Houston, TX | $43,220 per year (full-time) | 949 | 166 | $69,614,390 | 23.7% |